“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.” ― Cindy Ross …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 11: Guitar Lake to Whitney Portal
Happy National Dog Day! Anyone who has dogs or gets to interact with them on a regular basis knows what incredible specimens they are. Dogs are always there …
Read moreHappy National Dog Day! Here Are 30 Pictures To Celebrate Man’s Best Friend!
“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 10: Kearsarge Pass to Guitar Lake
What is adventure? If a lone wolf lifts his plaintive call into the moonlight near your campsite, you might call that adventure. While you’re sweating …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 9: Marjorie Lake to Kearsarge Pass
“Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 8: Grouse Meadows to Marjorie Lake
“Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear’s days are …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 7: Colby Meadow to Grouse Meadows
“Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit every …
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 5: Silver Pass Lake to Marie Lake
This Sunday I finished hike number 27/52 for the 52 Hike Challenge in 2015, and have now completed 318 of my goal of 1000 miles …
I’ve received a few questions in the past few months from people asking how I do so much each month. It usually starts with “I wish I could do that, but…”, “I’d love to hike, but…”, you get the idea. In this post I’ll introduce you to the idea of “microadventures”, and show you how they can change your life.